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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
THE sucksr Shops.


In the course of an interesting articl
on that subject the Cincinnati CONNER
ciGl- Gazette saws the Chicago Board o
Trade is the boee bucket-shol
in America. Ii has, howev
er, through Legislatures and tn,
Courts, succeeded in compelling the tel
egraph companies 10 Withdraw theil
wires from the so-called bucket-shops
which is another tern Tor minor gam
bhng-houses. Since the collapse of the
Chicago wheat deal, and the later San
Francisco wheat deal speculation has al.
SO collapsed, and the brokers who mark
the cards on the Chicago Board of Trade
are not able to butter their bread. The
bunko-steerers even are not able to
bring them business. This makes them
frantic. They attriknte their loss OF
trade to what they cali the bucket-shops,
which are but ofshoots of their own
huge concern. The wonder is that the
telegraph companies should suffer them
selves to be bulldozed In this way. If
they would withdraw their wires from
the big bucket-shop, otherwise called
the Chicago Board of Trade, they would
command the respect of the public. AS
it is, the telegraph companies are mere
bunko-steerers, working in the interest
of the big gamblers and working against
the small gamblers.
Upon the collapse of the Harper
wheat deal, which swamped the Fidelity
Bank, the President of one of the largest
banks in Chicago said it would be a good
thing for the whole country if the
ground would open and swallow the Chi
cago Board of Trade and all the gam
blers connected with it. For himself,
he never was in the building and would
be ashamed to be seen on the door steps.
1t is huge gambling concern and moth
ing else. The aim of the leading opera
tors is to draw outsiders into their net.
These are a set of conspirators. They
know every operation. 1t makes no
difference to them whether they are
bulls or bears. They can operate on
either side, and they swing from one to
the other with the greatest facility.
They note the number of short sales,
and when the amount is large enough
they scoop themin. On the other hand.
they note the long sales, and when
these are large enough they scoop the
pot. A few may win, and the chances
may not be in the proportion of one to
seventy-fiVe thousand, as in the policy
business, but they are overwhelmingly
against the player.
A few leading gamblers at Chicago like
Armour have got rich, like few leading
gamblers on the New York Stock Ex-
change, and these are able to control the |
market. They have the power to put
prices up when in the natural course of
affairs they ought to go down, and vice
versa. The outside public are operating
all the time against loaded dice. The
big gamblers scoop the pot every time. |
Better go into faro bank than into the
Chicago Board of Trade. In point of
morals there is no difference, and as to |
the bucket-shops they are merely a |
branch of the big concern at Chicago.
They are not exactly branches, but COM
petitors, and it is not certain but that
the small concerns are better for opera
tors, or more correctly speaking, gam
blers, than the big concern in the long
run
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
BAD ENOUGH.
Effort to Increase the Number
Killed at ChatsWorth.

Effort to Increase the Number
Killed at Chatsworth.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sep. "A railroad
man in the city saws that from state
ments made by one of the Toledo Peoria
& Western Co.'S employees who worked
at the Chatsworth wreck night and day
until it was cleared away, he is convinc-
ed that 126 persons lost their lives at
that place. This railroad employee says
he personally knew of that number OF
bodies being taken out dead, which were
shipped away to various parts of the
country as rapidly as possibly. This
evidence is corroborated by statements
of residents of Peoria visiting here.
They say that number of young men
went out to the scene of wreck on the
first regular train and remained all day
They stated on their return that they
had counted ITO bodies taken out up to
the time they left and that 1t was be-
lIeved that several more had been en-,
tirely consumed in the fire.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
Are They Common carrlers?

NEw YORK, Sept. lin June last the
interstate commerce commissioners or
dered the express companies to file with
them on Sept. briefs on, els the fed
eral law regulating interstate commerce
applicable to express companies ?" Up
on receipt of the order all express COM
panies set about, through their respect
i've legal counselors, to obey it. To-day
Clarence Seward, for the Adams Ex-
press company; Mr.. Mcfarland, for the
United States Express company; Mr..
Chesholm, for the Southern; Mr.. Pome-
eroy, for the National and American Ex-
press companies, and Messrs. Blanding
and Pilsburry for Wells Fargo, submit
ted their briefs to the commissioners.
Mr.. Seward, in his opinion, expresses
himself substantially as the other legal
gentlemen in theirs, so that his conclu.
sion is that of all. He says: 1.-THE
Adams Express company is not in any
sense one of the common carriers to
whom the interstate commerce act in
any way relates"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

FREoUENT limitations have come by
cable of the way Buffalo Bill has taken
England by storm, and correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun says he finds it
more than true. Buffalo Bill COM
menced his performances on May 9,
more than three months ago. He has
given two performances every day since
that time, Sundays only excepted. The
correspondent says:
81 saw both the afternoon and the
night performance of yesterday, and at
the two there could not have been less
than thirty thousand people. Yester-
day was damp and chilly, and the at
tendance was much under the average,
which is forty thousand per day. The
daily attendance at times has gone up to
sixty thousand. The Prince of Wales
has come eight or ten times, and the
Princess of Wales has twice ridden in
the old rickety Deadwood coach, which
will fall to pieces some day when they
are tearing around with il. While the
sham attack of the Indians was made
upon it upon the second of these occa-
sions, the Indians outdid themselves in
lhideous screeching and blazing away
with their carbines, and the Prince, who
was looking on, was alarmed for fear his
Princess would be nervous. When the
coach stopped, however, she descended
in the smoke, fairly radiant with smiles
land expressing her delight at having
such deliclously exciting time. The
fox hunting and the dare devil riders OF
the nobility and gentry are particularly
fond of coming to witness the bareback.
riding cowboys and Indians, and they
take especial interest in witnessing the
antics of the 'bucking' mustangs, and
the desperate efforts very often required
to mount them. There was also some
little incredulity at first as to the buck
ling horses, and it was intimated thai
they were trained for this purpose. Blu
close observation has always convinced
the experienced horseman to the con
trary. Since the Princess Of Wales Sc
the fashion there has been q great com
petition for riding in the coach, and i
seldom has its baptism of fire, that on,
two or three ladies, more or less promi
nent, are not inside, with as many gen
Jtlemen on top"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

IT is said that the membership of the
Knights of Labor is fifty per cent. less
than it was a year ago, while the condi
ton of its treasury is compromising. Al
the national assembly of the Knights al
Minneapolis next month. the question
can be proftably discussed as to who
and what has brought about this decline
in the influence and strength of the or
der. Outsiders have realized for some
time that this great labor organization
was being brought dangerously near dis
solution by internal troubles and iIl-ad
vised methods of procedure. 1t will BIZ
interesting to know whether the coming
congress will be able to eliminate the
bad from the good and save the Knight
of Labor organization to future of use
fulnesS.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

THE sixth annual meeting of the Amer
lean Forestry Congress will be held in
Springfield, ILL.,, Sept. IA to Is. This or
ganization aims to awaken an active pub
lie interest in the subject of the preser-
walton and renewal of our forests, and to
secure the enactment of proper forestry
laws. To do this it disseminates correct
information regarding the forests and
their effects on the country. This!Iis a
laudable undertaking. Our timber sup
ply is diminishing with alarming rapid
ity, while the annual consumption is
steadily increasing. The present forest
area is now considerable under SOC, OOO,-
600 acres. Each year gigantic inroads
are being made upon it, for the annual
consumption is considerably over 90
000,OGO,O 900 cubic feet. AT this rate, an
other generation will see the forests
practically destroyed.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

EIGHTY-FIvE thousand dollars was the
price paid for piece of ground in Phil
adelphia. This piece of land has 'front.'
age on Chestnut street of sixteen feet,
and was thirty-four feet deep. This
MADE the price $156 per square foot, the
highest ever paid for real estate in
America. This would be if the compu-
tation is correct, $6,SOO,OOO per acre, or
nearly as much as the United States paid
for Alaska twenty years ago.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
TRADED FOB HOGS

Then Eaten by Savages = Horrible
Story from the Sandwich islands.
SAN FRAScIsoo, Sept. 5.-PriYate adj
vices from Honolulu state that ON one Of
the outlying islands of the Sandwich
groupe q massacre Of three boatmen
belonging to the schooner Mary Ander-
son was lately made by natives under
exceptionally brutal circumstances. The
boatmen were first severely wounded to
render them helpless, tied hand and
foot and then taken in canoes over 10
another island and traded for pigs. The
purchaser then finished them and had
a cannibal feast on their bodies.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
1T WENT OFF.

Fatal Result of Investigating a Blast
that did not Explode.
MONROE, Wis, Sept. 2.-Wm. Kroell
was killed near here Yesterday. Four
blasts were put in, three exploding, but
the fourth one did not go of. After
waiting twenty minutes the men were
ordered out, Mr.. Kroell being first man
TO get there. The blast exploded blow
ing him to the top of the cut, forty-fiYe
feet high, blowing one side of his head
and one arm off and terribly mangling
his body. One arm was found over one
hundred Ieet from the scene of the dis
aster. This makes three men killed IN
the same place during the summer.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

The RaiIsOdy Age of the current month
month says: eft now seems probable
that the number of miles of new road
constructed in the United States during
1887 will be about 1900. This figure il
the greatest on record. It has never
been approached, except in 1882, when
the total was IL ,56S miles. Track fol
1887 up to Sep. aggregates &, 1852 miles
Kansas still continues far in the lead
over the States in the work of railroad
construction.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
Lord to Succeed Garrett.

WASHINGTON, Sep. 5.-There will be
general rejoicing all along the line OF
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad if the ru-
mors to day current shall prove to be
true. 1t is alleged that President Gar
rett has permanently retired from the
management of the road, and that C. K.
Lord, the general passenger agent, will
become president of the corporation. It
will be good thing for the public as
well as for the corporation to have a
thorough railroad man at the helm. As
it now stands, the Baltimore & Ohio is
considered an unsafe road to traveloyer.
Accidents have been all too frequent
and disastrous of late.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

u
The St. Paul Globe is decidedly pre-
sumptive when it Claims that Mr.. Blaine
is not worried about "the Sherman
boom, or the Lincoln boom, or the ALI
sou boom. but he is uneasy about Penn
sYlyania. At the recent convention in
Pennsylvania, the Republicans Endorsed
Mr.. Blaine, and when Pennsylvania Re-
publicans indorse public man for Office,
such endorsement means precisely what
it purports to. The efforts of the Globe
to show that Mr.. Blaine is worried about
Don Cameron falls still-born. Mr..
Blaine in Pennsylvania is as strong as
Mr.. Blaine in Ohio, and in either State
he has the strongest following Of any
man in America No, Mr.. Blaine is Civ
ing himself no uneasiness about the
Keystone State. The Democrats are the
fellows who are worried,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09


REGARDING the syndicate which has
captured the Baltimore & Ohio road the
Philadelphia Ledger says:
There are no hidden parties to the
syndicate which has undertaken to
straighten out the Baltimore and Ohio's
embarrassed finances and to put them
again in the strong position they former
ly occupied. There are no secret articles
IN the preliminary agreement. The re-
port that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is party to the negotiation is
entirely without foundation in fact. That
company is not party and has no inter
est in the agreement, except as part OF
the general public. The syndicate is
composed exclusively of the banking
houses named in Saturdays publication
upon authority of Drexel, Morgan & Co.
No other parties are concerned in the
negotiation, either directly or indirect
ly, and none others have any interest in
the syndicate. 1t is the purpose of the
syndicate, so far as the influence of its
members can reach, to manage the af-
fairs of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company to promote its best interests,
uninfuenced by the interests of any 9TH
er corporation, company or individual.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

Opening Session Of the lntorna-
tionaI Medical Congress.

Opening Session Of the lnterna-
tionai Medical Congress.
WAsmkoros, Sep. 5.--The ninth inter-
national medical congress opened its
sessions here to-day. President CIeye-
land, Secretary Bayard and Speaker
Carlisle occupied seats on the platform,
and the President in a short speech well
coined the delegates and declared the
congress ready for business. DIR. Nelson
Davis, Of Chicago, was elected president.
On taking the chair he delivered an ad-
dress eulogstic Of DIR. Austin Flent. Of
New York, deceased. who had been
selected three years ago to occupy the
chair on this occasion. DR.. Dawes then
reviewed the progress ofmedical science,
speaking of the resources and intelli-
gence now applied to the treatment Of
disease. There are 5000 doctors in the
city, nIne-tenths Of whom are Americ-
ans, the others being from different for
eign countries, French and English pre-
dominating.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

SENATOR RDDLEBERGER is said to be a
crank, but his eccentricity has its good
side. He leased of the Shenandoah
County Agricultural Society the entire
liquor privilege for the four days of the
Fair next month, paying 800 cash for it.
He then obligated himself to the society
that no intoxicating beverages should be
sold, and that he would lock up the
house heretofore used as bar-room.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

THE express companies have decided
to monopolize little public attention
just now. A rumor is in circulation that
a big deal is about to be contaminated be-
tween the American and United States
Express companies, whereby the former
is to gain the local express traffic on the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail,
way from Cleveland west to Chicago
and the United States company to gain
other valuable territory in exchange.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
CHILDREN BURNED.
Terrible Experience of a Texas
Family.

Terrible Experience of a Texas
Family.
WooDwoRTH, Tex, Sep. 3--The house
of Perry Buchanan was burned yester-
day. A girl about five years old was
burned to death and another three Years
old cannot live. One ten years old may
recover. Mrs. Buchanan had her arms
burned to the elbows. A ten year-old
child was out in the yard out of all
danger, but looking back she saw flames
surround her little sister and ran back
to the fire and brought her out, suffer
ing the penalty of being almost burned
to death for her bravery. The fire orig
mated from a cook stove.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
ONE yEAR AFTERwARD

What Charleston had Done Toward
Repairing the EarthquaI<e DAM
ages.
CHARLEsroS, S. G., Sept. 5-The Times
and Courier review of the earthquakes
work viii show that in the past year
over 5000 houses have been rebuilt or re-
paired and that 81 absolutely new build
in9s have enerected. The whole cost il
=, 300 900, Of which Charleston spent at
at least three million.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
Greatly Excited.

Not few citizes of Mankato have re-
Gently become greatly excited over the
astounding facts, that several of their
friends who had been pronounced by
by their physiclans as incurable and be-
yond all hope suffering with that
dreaded monster Consumption-have
been completely cured by DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, the
only remedy that does positively cure
all throat and lung diseases, Coughs,
Colds, Asthma and Bronchitis Trial
bottle free at J. r. Jones' Drug Store,
large bottles 81.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
Excursion Train Ditohed.

CHICAGO, Sept. IA Times special
from Parsons, Kas., says: "An excur-
sion train over the Kansas City & Pacific
from Moran, Allen county, to this city,
containing over 800 people, was ditched
on its return trip between Erie and
Moran last night. Several cars left the
track and a number of people were in
jured. One man, it is thought, will die
of his ininries.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

THE removal of the machine shops and
division from Wells, and the recent
change of time on the Southern Mime
sofa, which necessitated the mealing OF
the two principal passenger trains al
Fairmont, have combined to cut off a
very important part of the business Of
our junction neighbor. Mr.. Turner, the
landlord of the eating house at Wells
has spent large sum of money in i'm
proving his property, and just as he had
got everything in first-class shape, the
principal part of his patronage was cut
off by change of running time of trains
Mr.. T., however, is thriving, wide.
awake gentleman, and he proposes to
"catch onto" little of the moving lucre
through the means of neat and well
supplied lunch counter which he has
put up. The business men of Wells feel
keenly the loss of what has heretofore
been their main support, but they are
confident 1t will be but short time un,
til everything will right itself and the
town take on new life and thrift.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09
MICHIGAN FOREST ErREs.
A Prolonged Drouth Causing Much
DAMAGE,

A Prolonged Drouth Causing Much
Damage.
KoEHLER. Mich, Sept. 2. = Terrible
forest ires are raging in this vicinity,
Immense damage has been done to
standing timber, logs and ties. A large
crew of men are fighting big fire two
miles southwest. A strong northwest
wind carried the flames into lot of logt
owned by Loveless Blainey, Yesterday
burning about 5000 feet and 1000 cedar
railroad ties. Loss 5000. Over 1000.
600 feet of logs and nearly %, 600 ties are
now surrounded. 1t Is very doubtful Il
they will succeed IN saving any. The
prevailing drouth is the worst known
for years. Not drop of water has fall.
len since July 4, and the ground is ter
ribly parched. A large meadow owned
by H. L. Koepler caught fire six week,
ago and is still burning. ALI vegetation
is scorched and late crops are a tota
failure.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

THE adoption of the Chicago tariff
plank by Pennsylvania Democrats this
week was a square knock down for Sam.
j. Randall. He planted himself upon
that plank as against the tariff policy of
the Administration, and was completely
victorious. The day before the conven-
ton the Philadelphia Record (anti- Ran
DALI said:
From this time forward it will be inn
possible for President Cleveland to turn
his face in one way when addressing
himself TO the country at large, and in
another way when considering the De-
mocracy of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Randall has been compelled to
show his hand. He is sturdy oppon-
ent of the fiscal policy of the Admins
tration, both as to the collection and as
to the expenditure of revenue. If he
shall be defeated, Democracy viii stand
approved. Hhe shall succeed, the Dem
ocratic party in Pennsylvania win prac-
tically step upon the Republican plat
form, and be lost in that organization.
After to-day we shall be out of the
fog, and we shall know precisely where
we are,
AS matter of fact the tariff plank
adopted is clean straddle of the ques-
ton, and doesn't bring the Democracy
"out of the fog" by long way. It's
adoption, however, is a clear illustration
of the power of Mr.. Randall in PennsYl-
vania,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

SPEAKER CARLISLE has been invited to
take part in the Ohio campaign, but
says he will only do 30 upon condition
that he shall discuss what he considers
the live issue of tariff reform. If the
Democrats don't feel disposed to accept
his services on these grounds, Mr.. Carl
isle might apply to the Republican cam
paign committee,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

Iowa greenbackers did not nominate a
ticket at their State convention the 9TH
er day. They probably hope to make a
'dicker" with the Democrats or Prohi-
bitionists, but have become such small
quantity politically that they do not find
overtures plenty.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

BEN BUTLER has come forth with a
plan to get rid of the treasury surplus.
He advises that every man who served
in the late war be granted pension,
and as soon as all Union soldiers had
been cared for, the confederates should
be served in the same manner. Ben
had better not undertake campaign fol-
the Presidency on that platform. ~
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

IT Is said to be definitely settled that
the fight for the position of commander
in-chief of the G. A. R., who is to be Sc
lected at the National encampment at
st. Louis, has narrowed down to Gen. d.
P. Cries, of st. Louis, and Gen. Slocum,
of New York.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

The work of tunneling the bluff near
Galena, ILL.,, for the Minnesota & North
western Railway, is to be abandoned on
account of the imperious nature of the
blue clay which forms the ridge and is
proof almost against pick, shovel and
dynamite. The contractors are debating
the feasibility of making it an open cut
600 feet wide, and blowing and scraping
it down to grade. Should this plan be
adopted it will, when completed, be the
largest railroad cut in Illinois.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-09-09

THE great obstacle to the return OF the
mugwumps TO the Republican party is
the fact that they are all free traders.
They are generally disguised with Cleve-
land, but they can hardly make up their
minds to accept the Republican position
ON the tariff question.